The Little Burro Mountains are a short long
mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...
located in
Grant County, New Mexico
Grant County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. At the 2020 census, the population was 28,185. Its county seat is Silver City. The county was founded in 1868 and named for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United St ...
. The range lies adjacent to the southeast border of the larger
Big Burro Mountains
The Big Burro Mountains are a moderate length long, mountain range located in central Grant County, New Mexico. The range's northwest-southeast 'ridgeline' is located 15 mi southwest of Silver City.
The southeast end of the range has the Co ...
. The Little Burro Mountains are located 8 mi southwest of
Silver City.
State Road 90 from Silver City skirts the southern perimeter of the range on its route to
Lordsburg
Lordsburg is a city in and the county seat of Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. Hidalgo County includes the southern "bootheel" of New Mexico, along the Arizona border. The population was 2,797 at the 2010 census, down from 3,379 in 20 ...
.
The
Continental Divide traverses the southern ridgeline of the Little Burro's and continues on its southwest flank.
Description and region
The Little Burro Mountains are only a 15 mi long range. It has a northwest by southeast ridgeline, and is attached to the Big Burro Mountains that trend in the same direction. The small valley between contains Mangas Valley Road which connects Oak Grove on State Road 90 with
Mangas Springs which lies on the northeast perimeter of the Big Burro Mountains. Mangas Creek and its confluence with the lengthy
Gila River that completely crosses
Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
is adjacent just northwest.
Peaks
The highest peak in the Little Burro Mountains is Eagle Peak, at . It is located at .
[Eagle Peak Summit, mountainzone.com] Two other peaks are noted, in the north Wind Mountain, at , and Bald Mountain in the mountains southeast, and on the continental divide, at .
Access
The small range is surrounded by routes. Mangas Valley Road is on the southwest travelling to the northwest. The southeast has the entire length of State Road 90. The northeast and north has
U.S. Route 180 the major route from
Deming, north and northwest to
Alpine, AZ; it connects to Mangas Springs north of the range.
Continental Divide
The
Continental Divide starts to leave the forested mountain regions as it goes southwest from Silver City. It passes from the southern Little Burro Mountains, crosses the Big Burro's, then on a circuitous route after skirting the northeast of the
Cedar Mountain Range
The Cedar Mountain Range is a short 20 mi (32 km) long, mountain range in southwest Luna County, New Mexico, USA, just north of the Mexico–United States border with Chihuahua.
The range lies in the northwest Chihuahuan Desert and the ...
, it passes across the
water divide of the north
Playas Valley
The Playas Valley is a lengthy and narrow 60-mi (97-km) long, valley located in Hidalgo County, New Mexico in the Bootheel Region; the extreme south of the valley lies in Chihuahua. Playas, NM is located in the northeast. The valley is noteworth ...
, west of
Hachita. It finally enters a series of north-south ranges, including the
Animas Mountains
The Animas Mountains are a small mountain range in Hidalgo County, within the " Boot-Heel" region of far southwestern New Mexico, in the United States. They extend north–south for about 30 miles (50 km) along the Continental Divide,Since ...
, and travels south into northwest
Chihuahua, Mexico.
References
External links
Eagle Point Summit, mountainzone.com (coordinates)
{{Mountains of New Mexico
Mountain ranges of New Mexico
Mountain ranges of Grant County, New Mexico
Great Divide of North America